To save agriculture in the occupied Crimea, you need to invest in desalination plants or urgently return the peninsula to Ukraine, said on his Facebook page a volunteer, the head of the charitable organization "Mir and Co Foundation" Miroslav Gai.

"In the Crimea, intensive salinization of soils and groundwater began. This is an ecological catastrophe in the near future. There are two ways to save agriculture on the peninsula:.

Invest trillions of dollars in desalination plants. Which is impossible, because sanctions and "no money, but you hold on. Have a good mood".

Return Crimea to Ukraine yesterday. But I'm afraid that since the election of the Russian president is scheduled for the day of the occupation of the Crimea, the peninsula is waiting for a sad fate, "he wrote.

The volunteer noted that the Crimea is turning into a "piece of salt land for Russian military bases and nuclear weapons".

"When the Russians leave, and this is certain, after the international program" Nuclear weapons in exchange for food "begins, Ukraine will return to the mutilated peninsula with looted museums and salt instead of soil," he stressed..

The water flowing from the mainland of Ukraine through the North-Crimean Canal from the Dnieper, provided up to 85% of the needs of the Crimea. It was used for irrigation of agricultural land. After the annexation of the Crimea in the spring of 2014, the supply of water through the canal was discontinued. Due to lack of water "power" of the annexed Crimea declared the military time regime.

In April 2017 in the south of Ukraine in the Kherson region began to work a new dam that blocks the supply of water in the Crimea occupied by Russia. Construction of the dam lasted a year and cost 35 million UAH. The dam blocks the flow of water entering the peninsula along the North-Crimean canal from the Kakhovka reservoir.

The water saved at the expense of dam construction will be used for irrigation of lands in the south of the Kherson region.

The dam was installed on the border of the mainland of Ukraine with the Crimea. Its construction was explained by the need to provide water to farmers south of the locks, which are several dozen kilometers from the administrative border of Ukraine with the Crimea.

In December 2016, information appeared that the dam under construction in the irrigation season of 2017 will already perform its functions, which will increase by 7 thousand. Ha area of ??irrigated land in the Kherson region.